evacideMar 22
For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/journalist-security-checklist-preparing-devices-travel-through-us-border
A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border

We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting materials or source contact information. It’s important to think about your strategy in advance, and begin planning which options in this checklist make sense for you.

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Show threadThe Galactic JanitorMar 22

@evacide There was a time, growing up, that the USA was called "The Land of the Free"....

What is happening now is so ludicrously insane that words fail me.

Show threadHeathen 🐈
@natharari @evacide
Ask most black people if they remember that time. I don't mean this as a "gotcha", the country has always been like this, it's just affecting white people more now.
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Show threadRicardo HarvinMar 22

@heathen_cat @natharari @evacide

It seemed to be getting better, finally, but now it feels much closer to Jim Crow days, than true freedom.

It's a limbo that fills me with existential dread.

Show threadDeb Nam-KraneMar 22

@heathen_cat I'm AAPI, not Black, but the difference between the way I'm treated vs the way my white husband is treated is amazing. (And I have witnesses: our children.) Conventions that he thinks are suggestions I have to observe scrupulously.

I've seen people be more hostile and aggressive with my Black friends. Yeah, they don't remember Land of the Free very well.

@natharari @evacide

Show threadThe Galactic JanitorMar 25
@dnkboston I actually just wanted to thank you for teaching me the acronym AAPI of which I was previously unaware. I had to look it up. I didn't know there was an acronym for it and now...I do! Thank you.
Show threadDeb Nam-KraneMar 25
@natharari You're welcome! A little awkward, but closer to reflecting more of the diversity of the population.
Show threadThe Galactic JanitorMar 26

@dnkboston There are a lot of terms which come up since the last 15 years that, frankly, I don't hear because I've lived abroad since 2010 and I would only see on social media in English. So yeah, I have to look them up.

And since I only use social media sporadically, I don't get exposed to it all that often.

Show threadDeb Nam-KraneMar 26
@natharari not being on social media frequently is probably for the best
Show threadThe Galactic JanitorMar 26
@dnkboston Agreed. 😃
Show threadThe Galactic JanitorMar 23

@heathen_cat @evacide

Agreed. It was always aspirational - no disagreement there. But people visiting the US from abroad in the 1980s and 1990s would never have thought to themselves: "They might detain me for something that I wrote that disparages Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, so I better hide that." You can add Ford and Carter to that list as well. Hell, even George W. Bush wouldn't have done that.

That just wasn't a concern.